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ALM Rangers ship the ALM Readiness treasure map
We are pleased to announce that we have released the version of the Windows Store reference application that delivers the ALM Readiness treasure map to your Surface and other Windows 8 devices. Both...
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Make your app more attractive to customers in the Windows Phone Store
We’ve been talking a lot recently about what it will take to be one of the 64 winners of the Windows Phone Next App Star*contest to advance to the voting rounds, where the winning app will get the...
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Release Notes 2/13/2013
This week the CodePlex team made several improvements across the site. A couple noteworthy changes are:Replying to a discussion thread through email will now have the expected behavior and...
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Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit – Now for Windows Phone 8
Last year, I decided I finally wanted to take the plunge into DirectX development. I'd done a little bit of OpenGL programming several years ago, but no graphics development since then. I bought a few...
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I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora.
I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, you do it to, don't front.)A link to an interesting Q&A on Quora came along, so I clicked. And got this.Wow. This is...
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The F# Microsoft Dynamics CRM Type Provider Sample - Strongly-typed...
We're pleased to announce that a new type provider sample has been added to the F# 3.0 Sample Pack: the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 type provider. For those in a hurry, you can watch a short screencast...
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Getting a MIME type from a file extension in ASP.NET 4.5
If you've ever implemented a file upload or download scenario in ASP.NET, you've likely come across the situation of having to provide a MIME type based off of a file extension. IIS does this...
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Professional Team Foundation Server 2012
Grant Holliday and friends just put out a new version of their excellent TFS book, now updated for TFS 2012. It’s worth having if you are really trying to understand the ins and outs of TFS. Learn...
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP 3–After updating, editing work items from web...
For those of you installing the VS Update 2 – CTP3, there is an installation sequence that will put the web access work item tracking in a state where editing work items displays this error: If you...
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Teach your kids to be fans
I love how social media shatters the barriers to entry for fans. I can tweet my favorite actors and authors, like my favorite comic artists or writers and connect with them in a way that has not just...
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Multivaluelist control in TFS Work Item Tracking
One of the top asks from people in the field is to have the ability to have a dropdown in which you can select multiple values. Little people know that there is a already a solution out on CodePlex,...
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Mixed Native and Managed Debugging Improvements for Windows Store Apps
In Visual Studio 2012 RTM, there was limited support for mixed managed and native debugging of Windows Store apps. This support was greatly enhanced in Update 1.SetupEnabling mixed mode debugging is...
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Portable HttpClient for .NET Framework and Windows Phone
Many of you told us you want HttpClient for WIndows Phone. In this post, Alok Shriram, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team, will talk about an important announcement of ours. –Immo Today we...
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Released: ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 in Context
Last year the ASP.NET start talking about something we've called "One ASP.NET." I showed some mockups of our ideas last summer at the aspConf Keynote that you can watch online. We also announced then...
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Pre-release of ASP.NET Scaffolding with a Web Forms scaffold generator
Today we are sharing a pre-release build of a new code generation framework known as ASP.NET Scaffolding, as well as a scaffold generator (code generator) for Web Forms. The Web Forms scaffold...
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In the Community: Meet Tom Serface
Welcome to In the Community. This week, meet Tom Serface, C++ MVP and longtime Visual C++ user. I have been using VC++ with MFC since it first came out circa 1993 and I saw it demonstrated at a local...
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LightSwitch OData Tip: Easily Expose Many-to-Many Relationships using Queries
The other day I got an email from a good friend trying to expose a many-to-many relationship via his LightSwitch OData service. He was trying to recreate a feed similar to the one at...
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WCF Data Services 5.3.0 RTW
Today we are releasing an updated version of the WCF Data Services NuGet packages and tools installer. As mentioned in the prerelease blog post, this version of WCF DS has three notable new features as...
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The Evolution of DevLabs
A little over four years ago, we created the DevLabs portal on MSDN. The idea behind this site was to provide a hub for Microsoft teams to publicly share prototypes of innovative tools for developers,...
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.NET Framework Documentation Improvements
The CLR documentation team has been busy responding to feedback and making updates and changes to the .NET Framework documentation in the MSDN Library. We would like to tell you about the most recent...
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